Kang Jae-won

Kang Jae-won

Player information
birthday	November 30, 1965
place of birth	South Korea
citizenship	Korean
height	1.83 m
Playing position	Back right
	Back center
Throwing hand	Left
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-1990	?
1990-1992	Grasshoppers Zurich
1992-2002	Pathfinder Winterthur
National team
	Games (goals)
South Korea

Korean spelling
Hangeul	강재원
Hanja	姜 在 源
Revised Romanization	Gang Jae-won
McCune- Reischauer	Kang Jaewon
See also : Korean name

Kang Jae-won (born November 30, 1965 in South Korea ) is a former Korean handball player and current handball coach . The left-hander Kang was very versatile as an all-rounder . So he played on the positions backcourt right , backcourt middle and right wing .

successes

In 1989, Kang was voted world handball player of the year. Kang was known for his jumping ability, with which he was able to compensate for his relatively short body length of 1.83 m (75 kg body weight) and a very hard throw. At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , Kang surprisingly won the silver medal with the Korean national team. With 49 goals scored, he was the tournament's top scorer. At the 1986 World Cup he was the top scorer with 67 goals.

Career

Kang's first stop in Europe was in 1990 with the Grasshoppers Zurich team . Two years later he moved to the rival Pfadi Winterthur . In 1999 he left Pfadi Winterthur to play in the USA. The USA adventure failed due to a lack of funds in the US association, so that a few months later Kang played for Winterthur again. At the end of 2000 he left Winterthur again to go to Korea, but came back after two months and replaced Urs Mühlethaler as player- coach for Pfadi Winterthur. At the end of the 2001/2002 season, he finally left Switzerland. In April 2000, Kang was in negotiations with the THW Kiel . He should relieve Staffan Olsson in the right backcourt. For family reasons, however, the change did not take place.

He then worked in Japan as a handball trainer for national champion Daido Steel from Nagoya . In 2007 he took over the coaching position of the Chinese women's national team . He has been coaching the South Korean women's national team since November 2010 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pfadi Winterthur club history (PDF file; 116 kB)
2. ↑ thw-provinzial.de of April 14, 2000, Kang not to THW
3. ↑ landbote.ch of December 30, 2005, Yellow Cup in Winterthur
4. ↑ chinadaily.com.cn: Handball coach combines Asian, European styles , accessed on April 11, 2017
5. ↑ english.yonhapnews.co.kr: Two S. Korean head coaches meet in final of Asian Women's Handball Championship , accessed on April 10, 2017

literature

• Kang Jae-won in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Lexicon of Handball, Komet Verlag, ISBN 3-89836-605-7 , p. 110

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kang is the family name here, Jae-won is the first name.